MISSION




2009 so far...

Results of mission outreach projects so far this year...

  • Souper Bowl Sunday: 170 cans of soup
  • Church World Service Tools & Blankets project: $265.00
  • Singing Bowl: $1,298.13
  • UCC One Great Hour of Sharing offering: $265.00
  • LakeWalk for Cancer to benefit the Oconomowoc Regional Cancer Center: $1,200.00 
  • Christmas in July offering to buy grocery certificates for families in financial need: $693.00
  • Strengthen the Church UCC mission offering: $279.00
  • Singing Bowl in support of the Lake Area Free Clinic in Oconomowoc: $746.68
  • Singing Bowl in support of medical care for Brandon: $719.00
  • Neighbors in Need mission offering: $120.00 
  • One Great Hour of Sharing mission offering: $560.00
  • Relief to Haiti after earthquake: $1,198.00 + tents
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Singing Bowl Mission for August

2010 Mission –  “Women's Outreach"

500,000 women die annually as a result of poor care and no care during pregnancy and childbirth. In many countries, it is socially prohibited for a woman to be cared for by a male doctor and female health providers are nonexistant or few, especially in developing countries. During the months of August, September, October and November our Singing Bowl contributions will go to the education of women health care providers and midwives. $125 will provide education for one woman which will enable her to provide necessary medical care and assistance for women and children.

SPECIAL MISSION OPPORTUNITIES

The Singing Bowl Ministry

Each month our Social Concerns Team provides education about and an opportunity to contribute to a ministry in developing nations, as well as local outreaches. Globally, this includes things like literacy programs for women and children, digging village wells for better sanitation, and micro-lending projects to enable women to start their own small businesses. Locally, this would include not only education and financial gifts, but also hands-on outreach to local food cupboards and shelters. The money for this ministry comes from a weekly loose change offering called "The Singing Bowl."

Kettle Moraine Food Pantry

The first Sunday of each month we bring canned foods, paper goods and diapers for our local food pantry. Although the contributions here are usually grocery items, the Food Pantry also welcomes financial contributions. 

Dousman Home Meals

One week a month we deliver hot home meals to area shut-ins. The meals are made by the Masonic Home and picked up by us at the Three Pillars Compass Point at 12:00 noon. Volunteers can sign up to drive 1-5 days per month. There is no financial contribution to this ministry. (To volunteer for this important ministry, call the church office, 965-4022.)

SEASONALLY...

Neighbors in Need (NIN) offering (October)...A UCC national offering which supports disaster relief here and abroad.

Christmas Angel Tree (December)...The beginning of each December, we choose a few needy families in Waukesha County, and provide 'Christmas' for their basic (and not so basic!) needs. In addition, some of us also like to send Christmas Care packages to servicemen and women overseas, or visit shut-ins with cookies. Just pick a name off the Angel Tree, and that person is yours to bless. Gifts are brought to church the day of the Christmas Pageant.

The Christmas Fund (December)...A UCC national offering which helps retired clergy and missionaries to make ends meet.

Blanket Sunday/Tools of Hope Sunday (January or another winter month)...supports the disaster-relief efforts of Church World Service with blankets for refugees and tools for developing villages.

One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS)  (during Lent)...A UCC national offering which funds ministries surrounding poverty alleviation, development and justice advocacy here and abroad.

Strengthen the Church (on Pentecost)...A UCC national offering which funds new church starts and church revitalization projects throughout the U.S.

Christmas in Summer (June or July)...To help those families that we helped the previous Christmas, an offering is taken and converted into grocery gift cards for them.

OUR ANNUAL PLEDGE

The General Fund
Contributions here support the ministry of Emmanuel: it pays the staff, heat and lights. It buys church school supplies and Christmas banners. It buys the gas to run the lawn mower and the soap to wash the dishes inthe kitchen. It supplies all the basic institutional needs of this faith community.

OCWM (Our Church's Wider Mission)
Contributions here go to two places:

  1. To the Wisconsin Conference of the UCC, which runs the state office as well as helps support our agency institutions, such as retirement homes and care facilities, colleges and seminaries, our camping program for youth & adults at Pilgrim Center and Moon Beach camps.
  2. To the National UCC, which supports the national offices as well as our national ministries such as missionaries in the Global Ministries Project, global child sponsorship, justice and advocacy ministries, church growth and life ministries, curriculum publications and MUCH, MUCH more that we do on the national level.  

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